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The fascinating story of baseball's most legendary "Iron Men", Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played.

There comes a time in every competitive athlete's life when the cheering stops, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. Written by a former Division 1 football player and Academic All-American, The Way of the Athlete argues that sports prepares athletes for this transition by instilling qualities that contribute to academic, business, and personal success.

Addressing both collegiate and professional sports, the updated edition of Fair Play explores the ethical presuppositions of competitive athletics and their connection both to ethical theory and to concrete moral dilemmas that arise in actual athletic competition. A major new section in chapter four examines the ethics of genetically enhancing athletic abilities. Other new material covers the analysis of sports and games according to influential philosopher Bernard Suits; the morality of cheating and the ethics of strategic fouling; and more.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport contains Chicken Soup for the Soul’s 101 best stories and poems about golfers, golfing, and other sports. This book has fresh appeal to golfers and makes a fabulous gift. Golfers are a special breed. They endure bad weather, early wake-up calls, great expense, and "interesting" clothing to engage in their favorite sport. This is not a book about how to play golf - it is a book about how it feels to play golf. Professional and amateur athletes contribute stories from the heart, yielding a book about the human side of golf and other sports.

This superbly narrated and insightful audiobook follows the paths of thirteen ravaged champions in solitary crafts such as cycling and running, bowling and boxing, hiking and golf. These men work at and master their sports, driven only by a burning need to prove themselves. Movingly detailed here are their painful journeys to grace, and their eventual realization that no victory brings lasting happiness. In short, here is the human experience, told in seconds and miles, scorecards and records.

Optimum Drive is the complete step-by-step guide to maximizing human performance in any endeavor you choose to conquer. Gerrard believes peak performance is within our grasp. He lays out his step-by-step process for attaining peak performance with detailed nuance threaded throughout. If you have ever been curious about maximizing your own ultimate potential, Optimum Drive is for you!

Do you want to learn how to think strong and get fit? Then this amazing Mental Toughness three-book bundle will help you develop the mindset to help you achieve your strength and fitness goals. Mental Toughness includes the following books: Mental Toughness; Strength Training; and Body Weight Training.

Hacking Fear has tips and tricks to help coaches and parents of high-performing athletes debug those frustrating habit loops. It is not that these athletes do not want to perform at the highest level. Instead, they have developed complex behavioral defense mechanisms to avoid unwanted consequences. In Hacking Fear, we cover many strategies to disrupt these defense habit loops and break through to achieve your athletes' goals.

A mistake is nothing more than a miss-take, a misstep on your journey through life and therefore should be considered as a stepping stone on your path that can be utilized to get you back on track to where you want to go. The values you have in life can be influenced by faith, culture, or any number of other reasons; your values are important to you, but not necessarily the rest of the world, and the things you value in life are the foundations you build on in daily life.

This publication is full of practical techniques and questions designed to promote an understanding of why, at times, you feel the way you do, and help you to become rooted, mindful, and more accepting of you as the person you are.

How to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety and perform at your peak - using NLP and visualization.

Are you an athlete? Yes - you are! You may not know it yet, or have ever experienced the intoxicating rush of pure movement, but your inner athlete is lying dormant inside you just waiting to be unleashed! Even if you've played sports or undertaken athletic endeavors, have you really opened yourself to the physical and mental power that simmers just under the surface of your consciousness?

Do you want to improve your golf game ? Conquering the six demons of your mind will help you push through barriers which have been holding back your golf game. If you feel improvements in your golf game are just not coming through as quickly as they should, it could be one or more of the six demons within your mind that are holding you back.

Choosing to create advantaged positions and avoid disadvantaged positions is the most underutilized strategic asset in wrestling. The wrestler who wrestles in his highest advantage position, for the longest time in the match, will have the greater probability of winning. That is the reason why two wrestlers wrestle multiple times with drastically different outcomes, and why the logic doesn't hold that if one wrestler beat another he should be able to beat the wrestler his prior opponent beat.

In the book The 3 Sinister Truths of Coaching Sports Today - and What You Can Do About Them, you'll learn how to build a support network that will be there for you when times are tough, answering your questions and giving you guidance. You'll discover how to appreciate your position and those around you, and in turn be more appreciated for the job you do. And you'll understand how to create your own system of professional development.

Chances are, you've seen it happen with your own favorite time. They hire a coach that you know is bad but you can't turn away.... It's like watching a car wreck or a horror movie.... You know things are going to turn out bad but you watch, cross your fingers, and...things turn out even worse than you imagined. It is all because he is there, the worst coach in NFL history. In some cases, no one knows how or why he got the job. But he got it. And he is on your team...and oh, boy...bring out the beer, lots of it, 'cause it's going to be a looooong season.

The golf swing is a complex move. Its basic goal is to send the golf ball soaring into the air. But there is more to the golf swing than merely hitting the golf club to the ball. It is all about directing kinetic energy into the club head upon impact with the ball. All the kinetic energy is then transferred to the ball, and sends it into flight. To get that perfect golf swing, there are a few things to know and understand. Grab the golf instruction boxed set to learn more!

This unique and innovative golf instruction approach will increase your distance, cut strokes, lower scores, and effortlessly improve your golf game without changes to your grip, swing, or clubs.

Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out fills a critical need by speaking in a frank and direct voice directly to today's aspiring athletes about crucial, controversial issues and the personal choices they face. At the same time the audiobook presents them with the antidote to these negative influences - the fundamental values, attitudes and concepts, both mental and practical, that support and lead to athletic excellence.

Race wisely to achieve your personal best. You've trained for your peak race for months. When the big day comes, how will you perform? All the training in the world is useless if you can't execute your race plan and cope with unforeseen events, and subpar training can be overcome if you approach race day with the right attitude. Whether you are new to racing or have been frustrated by underperformance or setbacks, Racing Wisely gives you tools - from the practical to the philosophical - to perform to the best of your ability.